it's absolutely fucking surreal to me that, like, until i was 13 when she died a lot of my life was defined by my great-grandmother just being Not There mentally because of alzheimers and us going up to the mountains to visit her was always this... weird experience because of it
but it's wild to think of how my mom and my grandparents for a long time had to deal with that and that if any time or money was spent on find more effective medication then maybe they wouldn't have
Since that 2006 publication, the presence or absence of this specific amyloid has often been treated as diagnostic of Alzheimer’s. Meaning that patients who did die from Alzheimer's may have been misdiagnosed as having something else. Those whose dementia came from other causes may have falsely been dragged under the Alzheimer’s umbrella.
$56,000-a-dosejesus fucking christ
Since that 2006 publication, the presence or absence of this specific amyloid has often been treated as diagnostic of Alzheimer’s. Meaning that patients who did die from Alzheimer's may have been misdiagnosed as having something else. Those whose dementia came from other causes may have falsely been dragged under the Alzheimer’s umbrella.